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The Rev. Dr. Shawnthea Monroe

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Plymouth Church UCC, Shaker Heights, OH

The Rev. Dr. Shawnthea Monroe became the senior minister of Plymouth Church staff January 15, 2008.

A native of South Dakota, she hold degrees from the University of Minnesota, Yale Divinity School, and Chicago Theological Seminary

Dr. Monroe has served on the board of the Louisville Institute, and the Deaconess Foundation. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion and has taught courses in preaching, contemporary culture and theology, and grant writing for non-profit organizations.

An accomplished writer, she is the author of Not So Desperate: Fantasy, Fact and Faith on Wisteria Lane (Chalice Press, 2006) and co-author of Living Christianity: A Pastoral Theology for Today (Fortress, 2009).

Shawnthea lives in Shaker Heights with her husband Neil Mueller and their three children. Before coming to Plymouth Church, Dr. Monroe served First Congregational Church UCC (Moorhead, MN), Trinitarian Congregational Church (Concord, MA) and Colebrook Congregational Church (Colebrook, CT).

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Luke 1:46b-55

3rd Sunday of Advent - Year A

December 11, 2016

Our scripture reading today drops us into the middle of an intimate encounter between two extraordinary women: There is the elderly, once-barren Elizabeth and her newly expectant young cousin Mary. As Luke tells it, God is at work through the lives of both women and their words express nothing but joy.

Matthew 3:1-12; Isaiah 11:1-10

2nd Sunday of Advent - Year A

December 04, 2016

This may only be the second Sunday of Advent, but I am already over Christmas. Like everyone else, I get caught up in the spirit of the "holiday" season--the shopping, the baking, the decorating, the parties--while simultaneously trying to hold a quiet space for the season of Advent. Honestly, it feels like a losing battle: even in church, there are people itching to sing "O Come All Ye Faithful," and it is only December 4th.

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